History Characters / ShadowRaiders

* CharacterDevelopment: Possibly the contender for the most development in the series. While he remains a coward to the very end, ''how'' he displays that cowardice changes greatly. He starts off as a DirtyCoward who loves to gloat when he's in the superior position, but will betray and abandon allies when he's in trouble. By the time of "Blaze of Glory", he's more of a LovableCoward ''who admits his cowardice'', but still puts his people's needs first. In "Time Bomb", he's a CowardlyLion who knows well in advance how dangerous it is to go to Planet Jungle, right in The Beast's path, and set up an explosive booby trap, ''personally.'' At the end of "Ascension", he tells Pelvis to leave the blaster behind and bring the tray of Cannolis, to meet with Sternum, '''unarmed''', because he believes Sternum after the guy said his desire revenge is dead and buried, with good reason.

* CharacterDevelopment: Possibly the contender for the most development in the series. While he remains a coward to the very end, ''how'' he displays that cowardice changes greatly. He starts off as a DirtyCoward who loves to gloat when he's in the superior position, but will betray and abandon allies when he's in trouble. By the time of "Blaze of Glory", he's more of a LoveableCoward ''who admits his cowardice'', but still puts his people's needs first. In "Time Bomb", he's a CowardlyLion who knows well in advance how dangerous it is to go to Planet Jungle, right in The Beast's path, and set up an explosive booby trap, ''personally.'' At the end of "Ascension", he tells Pelvis to leave the blaster behind and bring the tray of Cannolis, to meet with Sternum, '''unarmed''', because he believes Sternum after the guy said his desire revenge is dead and buried, with good reason.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The Beast Planet's exterior is black, while the inside if its maw is lit up with bright red light. It's minions also employ a similar colorscheme, with the odd purple thrown in here and there (most notably seen on the larger Beast Drone Carriers [[spoiler: and Planet Remora]])

* WorfEffect: Not the Beast Planet itself, but in it's introduction it casually obliterates a Battlemoon ''from halfway across the solar system''. It then makes short work of a second moon not long after. Note that before this, a single Battlemoon was enough to swing the battle in favour of the Alliance. From what Cryos implied, it did this specifically to show off its power.

* BigEgoHiddenDepths: All who ascend to the throne of Planet Rock must first pass the ritual known as the "foundation of the soul" where one must either [[BattleInTheCentreOfTheMind conquer their inner demons]] or be destroyed by them. He passed it long before the series began, meaning Mantle it appears never had any qualms or regrets with his true self - in this case [[JerkWithAHeartOfJerk being a Jerkass]].

* BladeBelowTheShoulder: He has a set of serrated blades attached to each forearm, and he puts them to good use.

** On The Rocks: Blokk could have taken the Battle Moons out of the equation by sending Beast Drones into them and taking over while they were off-line. Instead, he propped his feet up and said "Life is good" until they came back on-line and started firing, at which point he called for a full retreat.
** Bad To the Bone: Lamprey could have easily wiped out The Cluster's breadbasket with her well thought out Null Energy Shield ploy, but blew it by taunting Femur, giving him the very tactic he needed to beat her.
** Mind War: Lamprey took control of Tekla's body and could have gleamed a great deal of intel. Instead, she blows her cover by mentioning the Battle Moons to Graveheart, something Tekla couldn't possibly know, and because she was busy going through Tekla's memories, gloating about the destruction of planet Tek, Tekla was able to get valuable intel from her instead, namely the world engines and how to cripple the Beast Planet, if she can ever remember what the secret is.
** J'Accuse: Lamprey had ''the entire'' leadership of The Alliance in her crosshairs and could have wiped them all out, if she had sniped them while they were looking at the evidence of Jade's frame up. Instead, she came out to gloat, blowing the element of surprise.
** Ragnarok Parts 1 & 2: Blokk spent most of the fight gloating about his tactical advantage and wasting cannon salvos on light fighters, even blowing up his own ships on occasion, and they let Femur escape. This buys time for the Battle Moons to show up and end the fight decisively in The Alliance's favor.

* MsFanservice: The prime competitor for the most attractive female in the cast. She's also effectively nude the entire time she was on screen, similar to Tekla

The cowardly ruler of Planet Bone, Femur is self-serving to a fault and always looking for ways to strengthen his position, often at the expense of his so-called 'allies'. However, his repeated backstabbing is mostly tolerated thanks to Bone's monopoly on the Cluster's food production. Often alternates between being [[TooDumbToLive suicidally]] [[WhatAnIdiot dumb]] and [[DumbassHasAPoint unexpectedly]] [[WisdomFromTheGutter wise]].

* StoryBreakerPower: It's so powerful that putting it anywhere else would end the story in moments.

* Ragnarok Parts 1 & 2: Blokk spent most of the fight gloating about his tactical advantage and wasting cannon salvos on light fighters, even blowing up his own ships on occasion, and they let Femur escape. This buys time for the Battle Moons to show up and end the fight decisively in The Alliance's favor.

* HypocriteHasAPoint: Yes, he is the one who went with Blokk's suggestion to change their mandate from "brobe the cluster's defenses" to "destroy the cluster's defenses" and then is put in charge of torturing both Blokk and Lamprey for failing to do so. Both Lamprey and Block ''could have succeeded'' countless times if they hadn't kept stewing in their superiority complexes until they screwed up their own plans. Some key examples:

* ChromeChampion: Everything on her body that isn't purple circuitry is reflective chrome.

* UltimateEvil: It is a threat to all life and sentience in the universe.

* MookMaker: It can create an ''endless'' army of Beast Drones to do its bidding and that fact is the very reason why Tekla warns Graveheart [[DontCelebrateJustYet not to get complacent]] after defeating any of its forces.

* SimpleStaff: He uses a collapsible quarterstaff.

* WeaponOfMassDestruction: The entire planet ''was turned into one'' by the native race, basically taking Planet Rock's battle moons UpToEleven, and even this still had no effect on the Beast. The world fell, and Tekla's soon afterwards.

* NeighbourhoodFriendlyGangsters: Femur is based on the archetype of the decadent, scheming, ruthless yet weirdly affable and fun-loving Mafia don; as the series goes on, more emphasis is placed on his benevolent aspects.

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Ooh boy. In the episode "Period Of Adjustment," Pelvis booby-traps Femur's throne. Femur realizes this purely by accident when he drops his canolis on it. Of course, this triggers spikes coming up from the seat into the cannoli, tendrils grabbing what would have been Femur's corpse and stabbing it with sharp implements swooping down the back of the chair, an explosion blowing the throne to pieces, and a parade of fireworks, guillotines, heavy weights, and lasers chasing Femur out of the throne room. Pelvis, like everyone else, is stunned that Femur survived all that with only AmusingInjuries.

* AdaptationalBadass: In the toy line, it only had two giant, world-ending cannons. In the cartoon, it has '''at least seven''', as first seen in "This is how the world ends."

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: It's clearly some sort of crystal, but it counts.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: You Gotta Have Green Hair: It's made of a crystalline material, like all Rock-dwellers.

* AmazonianBeauty: She has a strong, muscular build and she's made of stone.

* TheDreaded: None of the heroes have ever seen it, but it's null-matter creations have, and they are ''terrified'' of failing to appease it.

* EvilChancellor: Subverted. Despite his open contempt for the Alliance, his {{Jerkass}} behavior is motivated out of loyalty to Prince Pyrus and a desire to protect the young ruler from what he perceives as a potential threat. [[spoiler: His evil clone fulfills this role, trying to manipulate the rest of the people of Fire to return to the fake world to be devoured by the Beast, while openly trying to kill the Prince if he's not outright manipulating him.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: He stays behind on the doomed Planet Fire so he can use its damaged world-engines to [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram the Beast Planet]] in a final act of defiance.
** SenselessSacrifice: It doesn't work, and Fire is devoured anyway.

* VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler: His evil clone begs for mercy as he's hanging off a cliff over the false planet Fire's null-matter core. Prince Pyrus doesn't oblige. His fall to his death is what triggers the destruction of the false planet.]]

* LittleMissBadass: Cryos clearly took the time to train Zera with a pistol, as she takes out a fair number of Beast Drones across the series.